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... abroad without the escort of two private secretaries (one for the foreign languages), Mr. Hicks’s doctor, a maiden lady known as Eldoradder Tooker, w... ...to be thus suddenly deprived of the secretary who possessed “the for- eign languages”! Mr. Beck kept the accounts and settled with the hotel-keepers; ... ...r. Beck could never hope to replace him. Apart from his mysterious gift of languages, and his almost superhuman faculty for knowing how to address let...

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...answered, the louder grew his song. Sir Kenneth knew enough of the Eastern languages to be assured that he chanted sonnets of love, containing all the... ...tive troops, most of them of Saxon and Norman descent, speak- ing the same languages, possessed, some of them, of English as well as Scottish demesnes... ...ubian, by what- ever means he had acquired the art of writing the European languages, the King remained convinced that the English tongue at least was... ..., in long perspec- tive—a host composed of different nations, complexions, languages, arms, and appearances, but all fired, for the time, with the hol...

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...he activity, all the tradi- tions, the complex organizations, the nations, languages, lit- eratures, aspirations, even the mere memory of Man as I kne...

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...ale bard—descended, possibly, from those terrible old Scalds who seem to have existed for the express purpose of addling the brains of mankind when th... ...pored over our books for some hours. I won- der by what ingenuity we brought on that confused state of mind when sense became nonsense, when figures w... ...icle, to closely-buttoned swindlery in doubtful boots, on the sharp look-out for any likely young gentleman disposed to play a game at billiards round...

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...ir about so. ‘She’s all right again now,’ said the Red Queen. ‘Do you know Languages? What’s the French for fiddle de dee?’ ‘Fiddle de dee’s not E...

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...d hours of sincere work to learn a language completely—after three or four languages much less—which gives you, even at the outset, one each a year be... ...r or more magnificent? In six years Mr. Lewisham will have his five or six languages, a sound, all-round education, a habit of tremendous industry, an...

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...academy, having a taste for grammar and for the differences among European languages, had studied the problem of a universal tongue. This learned man,... ...purest and most fervent feeling. Believers and unbelievers speak different languages and cannot understand each other. The young girl pleading God’s c...

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...nd finely-formed, she was a good musician, drew and painted, spoke several languages, and even knew something of sci- ence,—a dangerous advantage, whi... ...sir! whether English, French, German or Ital- ian,—I let you off the other languages.” 195 Balzac Poiret [lifting his hands to heaven]. “Gracious goo...

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...nly the most important.” “You are, doubtless, acquainted with a variety of languages, so as to have been able to read all these?” “Yes, I speak five o... ...e taught you mathematics, phys- ics, history, and the three or four modern languages with which I am acquainted, you will know as much as I do myself.... ...the Romaic dialect during voyages to the East; and by the aid of these two languages he easily comprehended the construction of all the others, so tha... ...ilers; it is the rays of intelligence you have elicited from my brain, the languages you have implanted in my memory, and which have taken root there ... ...- ceal his emotion, and took a turn around the smoky tavern, where all the languages of the known world were jumbled in a lingua franca. When he again... ...d alone knows what country will see me die. I adopt all customs, speak all languages. You believe me to be a Frenchman, for I speak French with the sa...

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...antedates the latter by many centuries, and was known to all nations whose languages prove by their resemblance to the German tongue their original id... ...nd the wise dwarf Regin, who taught him the knowledge of runes and of many languages. * At the suggestion of Regin, Sigurd asks for and receives the s...

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...that you would be the only person who could be of use—you who know foreign languages and all their ways. If you could go abroad, and arrange it for me... ...farther, such as that lusus naturae, Miss Elizabeth Carter, who knew seven languages, or the Bishop of Oxford’s niece, Catherine T albot, who even pai...

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...it enabled him to provide for me. There were lessons, too, from masters in languages, music, and draw- 38 Chantry House ing, which Emily and I shared... ...er. He has had only foreign doctoring, and you know he never was strong in languages. I heard of the medico here inquiring what precise symptom der En...

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...u to pardon him if he cannot pay them himself, but he knows neither of the languages which you speak—” The aged nun bent her head slowly, with an expr...

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... heat, they filled the little bungalow with the unusual sounds of European languages, with noise and laughter produced by naval witticisms at the expe...

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... her hair down her back; I could call her by a hundred names, in a hundred languages, Melisande, Elizabeth, Juliet, Butterfly, Phèdre, Minnehaha, etc....

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...bling the speech of civilized men. It sounded like one of those impossible languages which sometimes we hear in our dreams. “What lingo is that?” said...

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...f the revo- lution. Rodolphe had not yet learned that, besides five living languages, Francesca knew Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. The charming creature p...

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...e poets who are mere Spanish verse writers, without any knowledge of other languages or sciences to adorn and give life and vigour to their natural in... ...ccessfully surmounted the first step of the sciences, which is that of the languages, with their help he will by his own exertions reach the summit of... ...nslation from one language into an- other, if it be not from the queens of languages, the Greek and the Latin, is like looking at Flemish tapestries o... ...the smoothness and brightness of the right side; and translation from easy languages argues neither ingenuity nor command of words, any more than tran...

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...ical scholar, but reasonably skilled in science, and master of most modern languages. He was, however, old and indulgent, and the recurring interregnu... ...aught her French and Italian, and a few of the ordinary au- thors in those languages ornamented her shelves. He had en- deavoured also to be her prece... ...e said to be very ancient, and if they are ever translated into any of the languages of civilized Europe, cannot fail to produce a deep and general se... ...bly owed to her foreign educa- tion, and command of the French and Italian languages. When the bustle attending the conclusion of the dance per- mitte...

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...fly, I found, surgical works and editions of the Latin and Greek classics (languages I cannot read with any comfort), on a shelf near the hammock. He ...